Here’s the talk I gave at Webstock earlier this year all about the indie web:
In these times of centralised services like Facebook, Twitter, and Medium, having your own website is downright disruptive. If you care about the longevity of your online presence, independent publishing is the way to go. But how can you get all the benefits of those third-party services while still owning your own data? By using the building blocks of the Indie Web, that’s how!
Yeah it can definitely be confusing, especially because some people build their own websites, some want simple ways to get Wordpress functioning and micro.blog aims to be as close to 0 config as possible. So everything has different audiences 🙂 Feel free to ask me any questions you have as you try to figure out what you want to do. There is also a Slack community and IRC community for the IndieWeb where you can discussion questions and find answers: https://indieweb.org/discuss
What IndieAuth provider do you use? Micro.blog? IndieAuth.com? Known? Wordpress? That is an error which how your IndieAuth provider is verifying URLs and it’s missing part of the spec. I can reach out to the maintainer of whatever your provider is to help them update to the latest spec.